Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gunmen, authorities said, then took an unknown number of hostages in a supermarket. One gunman was taken into custody, said a police spokeswoman...
Witnesses described both gunmen as having red hair, one in his late 20s and the other in his 50s, and both were believed to have been carrying military rifles, Brown said...
...Shiite-Palestinian fighting began as about 500 Palestinian women were returning to the Bourj el-Barajneh shantytown from a protest at which they demanded an end to the siege of refugee campus by end to the siege of refugee campus by gunmen of the Shiite militia Amal...
...fighting for control of Muslim West Beirut's commercial district was the worst to hit the area in three years. By week's end more than 200 people had been killed and some 400 wounded. Thousands more had been forced to go without food and water for days as gunmen fought pitched battles around them. Hostilities eased briefly late in the week as 4,000 Syrian troops, backed by hundreds of tanks and armored personnel carriers, massed in the nearby Chouf Mountains awaiting the order to move into West Beirut. Their mission: to enforce a cease-fire among Syria...
...week the Druze and the Communists, who had renewed an old alliance just last month, had the upper hand. They had pushed the Amal out of Hamra and the low-income Sunni Muslim district of Zarif and had begun shelling Shi'ite gunmen occupying the state television station in the Tallet Khayyat district, on the southern edge of West Beirut...